Transforming Problems,
Rebuilding Relationships
What We Do
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We are here to support you. We do that by tailoring our advice, consulting, intervention, or training to you and your organization's needs and challenges.
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We can help you:
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Improve how your team works together,
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Build healthy organizational cultures,
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Hone leadership skills and abilities,
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Repair broken relationships,
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have successful difficult conversations,
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Resolve and transform conflicts, and
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Prepare you for challenging negotiations.
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How We Do It
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Develop negotiation skills and strategies for individuals and professional groups
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Support, inform, and consult on DEI initiatives for organizations
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Work with communities to build their capacities to resolve their own conflicts
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Mediate administration, board, and staff conflicts
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Consult with congregations and divided communities to heal rifts and relationships and support healthy structures
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Mediate family, custody-visitation, divorce and other interpersonal conflicts
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Organize and conduct dialogues across difficult and needed topics
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Coach individuals through difficult negotiations, conversations, and conflicts
Who We've Worked With
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We have worked in multiple contexts and settings including:
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Individuals and families
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Companies, professional associations
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Schools
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Congregations and faith organizations
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Community, city, and state agencies, social service providers, leaders, activists
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Multiparty, multilevel conflicts
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We work with:
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Individuals,
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Small businesses,
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Professional associations, congregations, and
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Special interest groups.
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ABOUT US
Brian Blancke Ph.D. is a content consultant and trainer in negotiation, difficult conversations and influencing without authority for Vantage Partners, and has, in this capacity, worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies in many different industries. He is also an associate with Essential Partners and a certified Wendy Palmers Somatic coach. Brian has over 30 years of experience in the field of conflict analysis and resolution as a mediator, trainer, and researcher. He has a deep well of compassion and is a black belt in Aikido, and is dedicated to helping people unleash their potential for creative and healthy human relationships.
Almitra Gasper, CLC, is a dedicated community organizer, activist, and training facilitator. She is driven by her passions for health, public-speaking, and community. Raised in the St. Albans community, of Jamaica, Queens; Almitra experienced her first encounter with gun violence at 15-years-old. After finishing college and running Music On Myrtle, her own retail music and bookstore in Brooklyn for three years, she felt compelled to return to her native home in St. Albans, Queens to advocate for and improve her community’s physical and economic health. Over the past decade, she has continued her education in dispute resolution, multi-dimensional mediation and has worked as a trainer for the NYC Health Department's violence prevention, racial justice, and mental health first aid initiatives. In 2020, Almitra completed a degree in the Sociology of Urban Conflict. She is currently working on her MBA.
Dr. Rachel Goldberg has been mediating conflict for over 30 years, and her work and training background include: individual, organizational and multi-party interventions; including complex and wicked problems. She is a trauma survivor dedicated to reducing the trauma created by social injustice, violence, and cycles of re-created pain. She is co-designer, with Dr. Blancke, of a new framework, Multidimensional Conflict Resolution, which integrates emotional, somatic, and spiritual intelligence with classic conflict practice. She is an Associate Professor and former Director of Peace and Conflict Studies at DePauw University, in Greencastle, IN, and head of the Restorative Justice Mediation program there.